Anna Lisa Crone (June 9, 1946Bird, Robert, and Moira Crone. “Anna Lisa Crone, 1946-2009.” '' The Slavic and East European Journal'', vol. 53, no. 4, 2009, pp. 639–641. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40651216. – June 19, 2009) was an American

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and literary theorist.

Life

Bom in

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, Lisa was raised in

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and graduated from Goucher College in 1967. She received her

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from

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in 1975, where her teachers were Roman Jakobson, , and . She entered the

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two years later (1977) and began working as Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her first monograph was published in 1978 and devoted to a study of the Russian philosopher Vasilii Rozanov. Robert Bird, Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, called the book a new chapter in the study of Russian philosophical discourse. Her final years were dedicated to a monograph on the philosophies of eros in Russian modernism. This book, entitled ''Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal: The Philosophers and the Freudians'' (2010), focuses on four brilliant representatives of the " Russian Religious Renaissance" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries— Vladimir Solovyov, Vasily Rozanov,

Nikolai Berdyaev Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (; russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; – 24 March 1948) was a Russian Empire, Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialism, Christian existentialist who e ...

, and

Boris Vysheslavtsev Boris Petrovich Vysheslavtsev (russian: Бори́с Петро́вич Вышесла́вцев; 1877–1954) was a Russian philosopher who belonged to the Russian Silver Age and Renaissance of Religion and Philosophy.Blagova, Tatiana. “Boris ...

. In trying to situate these thinkers in a European philosophical context, Crone investigated their connection to Freudian theory, with their views being sometimes misinterpreted by Crone. During her career she directed almost 20 dissertations. In 2007, two of her students published ''Poetics, Self, Place: Essays in Honor of Anna Lisa Crone''. She died from

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and was survived by her husband Vladimir Donchik, her daughter Liliana, her parents Ethel and James Crone, and sisters Laurel Sneed and Moira Crone.

Awards and honors

* 1985: a Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the University * 2000: Award for Achievement in Post-Secondary Teaching (the

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) * 2000: a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (

)

References

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